I ran across an interesting white paper written by someone at Hotmail
discussing a change from FreeBSD to Win2000 for their servers. It's an
interesting discussion of many of the system administration and
configuration management issues that arise. Interestingly, it seems that
one of the big problems is the "desktop GUI" centric nature of many of the
MS tools, which don't lend themselves to scripting and so forth.
http://securityoffice.softimage.net/hotmail.html
The paper has much discussion of the problems of keeping system images
consistent, rolling out updates, etc., all of which is relevant to cluster
computing.
Jim Lux
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